Making the case for strengthening the nation's background check system for purchasing guns, President Barack Obama pointed Thursday to recent polls showing that nine out of 10 Americans offer support for the measure.
"How often do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything?" Obama said at an event at the White House with family members of victims of gun violence.
Obama got emotional when recalling December's elementary-school massacre in Newtown, Conn. He rejected the thought that nearly 100 days after the massacre, the movement to reform the nation's gun laws has lost momentum.
"Shame on us if we've forgotten" about Newtown, Obama said. "I haven't forgotten those kids."
He called on Congress to act, telling them to not "get squishy."
"We are not going to wait for the next beautiful child to be gunned down before we are willing to act," he added.
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